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[makeyoufakeit.livejournal.com]

huge new issue of fat girl break down:

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[msmeowness.livejournal.com]

Don't know if anyone has posted this already, but here is a link with some info about microwaving CDs:
CD Zapping

I found it in href

redecorating

[fadedred.livejournal.com]

so my dad decided that its time to give the whole house a makeover.. my room included. anyone have any ideas on what to do? thinking along the lines of loud and artsy or calm and buddhist.. any ideas would help me with the brainstorming..
thanks in advance.

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[viverevolution.livejournal.com]

I made a ( sock )

Also, does anyone know where I can find a pattern for home made envelopes? The kind you make out of magazine pages.

look what i accomplished....while hiding from my to do list...

[chickxbassist.livejournal.com]

i finally found something to do with those silly cards that fall out of magazines: make post cards that actually look GOOD out of them! i made a collage one a while back for my friend, but here's one i made today with paint/decoupage: ( postcard )

and here's my adventure with aol tins in an attempt to make something for my musician friend (thanks for all the suggestions guys!! i'm so gonna try all of those at some point!): ( tintastic )

Rummage Sale!!!

[one-more-grrl.livejournal.com]

Today, I had no plans. I figured I'd make a duct-tape wallett, and work on some magnets and little sculpey thingees. I got a call around noon that there is this rummage sale at the local farm (mind you, the only local farm... this is north jersey). So I bust outta here because I was informed that there was a lot of great craft stuff really cheap.

I got 3 huge shopping bags o' stuff for only $40... I got some decorative votive holders, velvet ribbon, 2 spools of rope cord, 12 floating candles, 2 wooden boxes, 2 wooden wal-shelf thingges for only $2! I would have spent at least $20 apiece at AC Moore... I got a lot of boxes and candle stuff to play around with.

So far, I took one of these trays that looks like a picket fence all around it, primed & painted it and then glued big sunflowers so that it looked like a front yard and put candles in the tray. I wish I could put pics up, but I don't have a digital camera. Oh yeah, and at the rummage sale, there was this pretty cat wandering around, and it kept jumping into this box of fake roosters. I really wanted to get one of those chickens, but I had no clue what I would do with a life-sized, realistic replica of a chicken.

I also have a question. I know that modge-podge will wash away with water, but what is something I can use to seal it so that it will be water proof after my project is done? I got some arcrylic spray sealer today so maybe that would work?

Rummage Sale!!!

[one-more-grrl.livejournal.com]

Today, I had no plans. I figured I'd make a duct-tape wallett, and work on some magnets and little sculpey thingees. I got a call around noon that there is this rummage sale at the local farm (mind you, the only local farm... this is north jersey). So I bust outta here because I was informed that there was a lot of great craft stuff really cheap.

I got 3 huge shopping bags o' stuff for only $40... I got some decorative votive holders, velvet ribbon, 2 spools of rope cord, 12 floating candles, 2 wooden boxes, 2 wooden wal-shelf thingges for only $2! I would have spent at least $20 apiece at AC Moore... I got a lot of boxes and candle stuff to play around with.

So far, I took one of these trays that looks like a picket fence all around it, primed & painted it and then glued big sunflowers so that it looked like a front yard and put candles in the tray. I wish I could put pics up, but I don't have a digital camera. Oh yeah, and at the rummage sale, there was this pretty cat wandering around, and it kept jumping into this box of fake roosters. I really wanted to get one of those chickens, but I had no clue what I would do with a life-sized, realistic replica of a chicken.

I also have a question. I know that modge-podge will wash away with water, but what is something I can use to seal it so that it will be water proof after my project is done? I got some arcrylic spray sealer today so maybe that would work?

(no subject)

[xtarasuex.livejournal.com]

I made this shirt:



how can I fix the fact that the background looked black on my screen, but printed brown, and is obviously brown on my shirt.

It said to use the plain paper setting, well when I did that, it looked downright awful, and caused me to lose a sheet of precious transfer paper. Obviously not wanting to waste my whole packet of paper, I just did it with my second try, which turned out better than the first, but honestly I wanted the background to be black, like I intended. Not brown.

(no subject)

[xtarasuex.livejournal.com]

I made this shirt:



how can I fix the fact that the background looked black on my screen, but printed brown, and is obviously brown on my shirt.

It said to use the plain paper setting, well when I did that, it looked downright awful, and caused me to lose a sheet of precious transfer paper. Obviously not wanting to waste my whole packet of paper, I just did it with my second try, which turned out better than the first, but honestly I wanted the background to be black, like I intended. Not brown.

(no subject)

[asleeptoday.livejournal.com]

ok. a few questions.

1. solvent transfers - does anyone know anything about these?.. everyone's always talking about them at school and i havent found a method that works... basically waht you do is take something printed out by an inkjet printer, and transfer it onto a different paper, or fabric, or.. something basically by rubbing the back of it with a solvent. so the questions about it are, does anyone know what solvent i should use? or have any advice as far as that goes? i've heard that nailpolish works, but i tried it and it dosent. maybe i was using the wrong kind of paper.

2. does a heavy paper, such as a printmaking paper, go through an inkjet printer? are there any tips/ tricks to getting that to work? and if it does, is the quality of the image disturbed?

3. do any of you buy your fabric online? i jsut got a sewing machine and went frombeing in the suburbs (old lady sewing store heavan) witha car.. to the city.. with extreme cold and walking. so i'm going to try ordering some stuff online. anyways. do you have any suggestions of places wiht a good selection for not outrageous prices? the only places i really know of are jo ann fabrics, and repro depot.. and i'm not too fond of either of those.

thanks alot!

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[asleeptoday.livejournal.com]

ok. a few questions.

1. solvent transfers - does anyone know anything about these?.. everyone's always talking about them at school and i havent found a method that works... basically waht you do is take something printed out by an inkjet printer, and transfer it onto a different paper, or fabric, or.. something basically by rubbing the back of it with a solvent. so the questions about it are, does anyone know what solvent i should use? or have any advice as far as that goes? i've heard that nailpolish works, but i tried it and it dosent. maybe i was using the wrong kind of paper.

2. does a heavy paper, such as a printmaking paper, go through an inkjet printer? are there any tips/ tricks to getting that to work? and if it does, is the quality of the image disturbed?

3. do any of you buy your fabric online? i jsut got a sewing machine and went frombeing in the suburbs (old lady sewing store heavan) witha car.. to the city.. with extreme cold and walking. so i'm going to try ordering some stuff online. anyways. do you have any suggestions of places wiht a good selection for not outrageous prices? the only places i really know of are jo ann fabrics, and repro depot.. and i'm not too fond of either of those.

thanks alot!

(no subject)

[skankinska.livejournal.com]

I plan on doing some painting in my room very soon, as soon as I buy the paint. Im going to pain my walls pink and paint a boarder of black stars at the top using a star stencil. I also want to paint my furniture black with some pink stars on it. My dressers are old and ugly.. antiquie looking and they have water stains on them. I need to do something with them.
one problem? the dressers have a inish on them, i believe my mom said it was a varnish finish? im wondering if anyone knows if i will have to sand it all down before painting.

(no subject)

[skankinska.livejournal.com]

I plan on doing some painting in my room very soon, as soon as I buy the paint. Im going to pain my walls pink and paint a boarder of black stars at the top using a star stencil. I also want to paint my furniture black with some pink stars on it. My dressers are old and ugly.. antiquie looking and they have water stains on them. I need to do something with them.
one problem? the dressers have a inish on them, i believe my mom said it was a varnish finish? im wondering if anyone knows if i will have to sand it all down before painting.